... reading ... John Cage ... Salome Voeglin ... Jacques Ranciere ...

& listening to ... Bjork ... (she, too, would like to live in a lighthouse!)

& buying ... what I thought was a new Sigur Ros CD (only to discover it wasn't & I that I had it already) ...

& teaching ... nursery rhymes, limericks, riddles, the shipping forecast & Beatles lyrics in an attempt to wake up dulled ears ...

& sitting in the garden when the kids several doors down are not screaming like piglets in an abattoir ... (spell check suggests 'abba tour') ... & enjoying the last hours of summer ...

& trying to remain positive in the face of ever increasing irritations (such as setting the DVD recorder for The Thick Of It correctly except for the channel & finding 30 minutes of black screen)

& writing at least some words ...